Volunteers are set to provide area homeless and indigent veterans with access to health, legal, shelter, employment and other services during an annual stand down Tuesday.

The Onslow County Job Link Veterans Unit will be aided by 30 federal, state and local agencies including the Veterans Administration, faith-based organizations and the private sector in providing veterans with services and information, organizers said.

Feedback from previous stand downs last year and in 2011 have been positive, said Kelley Hamilton who coordinated the event as a disabled veteran consultant for the Jacksonville Employment Security Commission.

Last week volunteers participated in a countywide count of all the local homeless within a 24-hour period. Some of those volunteers will be at the stand down to glean information from any homeless vets that were missed during the count. Tallies from the count are expected to be available after the stand down, said Kathleen Holbrook, co-chairwoman of Community Advisory Network - Developing Onslow.

The 3rd annual event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the American Legion Building in Jacksonville.

Anyone interested in volunteering at the stand down should contact Hamilton at 910-347-2121 or kelley.hamilton@nccommerce.com.

Contact Daily News Senior Reporter Lindell Kay at 910-219-8455 or lindell.kay@jdnews.com. Follow him on Twitter and friend him on Facebook @ 1lindell.